I had the pleasure of hearing some of the story from the book Approaching Neverland: A memoir of Epic Tragedy & Happily Ever After at my Rotary Club today. I felt compelled to multiply the message of the author Peggy Kennedy and her mission to raise awareness about mental illness. She told me that 1 in 6 adults have a form of mental illness and 1 in 4 families have a family member who suffers some form of mental illness. In her call to action she suggested that we support the National Alliance on Mental Illness or NAMI. I believe awareness about these issues is very important in creating and maintaining healthy communities. After a brief interview Peggy agreed to recording a blog talk radio podcast with me, here is the un-edited podcast in its entirety:

Today I watched part of the Arizona – Green Bay playoff game. I left to take my son outside to ride his bike and thought the game was a blowout. I noticed a friend had posted on my Facebook comment about the game that Green Bay was making a comeback so I turned the game back on. At that point I was riveted to the game, exchanging comments on Facebook as a very close game was decided in overtime. It reminded me how important in life and business it is to never give up. You will win and you will lose, learn from the mistakes and don’t let the victories make you complacent.

While looking at options for a collaborative project I am working with a group on, I settled on Ning instead of a Yahoo or Google group. This was a departure for me and I realized that Social Networking Tools have changed me.

In Joe's day job he helps manufacturers eliminate waste in their engineering, CNC programming and machining departments. He is currently 2018-2019 chair of the Sacramento Valley SME, an avid Maker and current Mechatronics student.